Package: lintian Version: 1.23.7 Severity: normal Hi.
I saw that in 1.23.6, lintian closed the wish reported in #200171. However, instead of checking that a desktop file is an obsolete directory (/usr/share/applnk or /usr/share/gnome/apps), it checks that it is not in /usr/share/applications. This is incorrect, because, for example, KDE, has other standard directories for servicemenus, components (KParts), icon sets, and others. This files should _not_ be installed in /usr/share/applications, because they are not intended to create a menu. Note also, that some upstream developers, try to be both backwards and forwards compatible: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/0.9/apc.html So some (but not all) desktop files under the old directories are indeed OK. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-386 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.35-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.14.1-6 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii man-db 2.4.2-21 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
